| Individual Placement Description | |
|---|---|
| Placement | General Surgery |
| Year | F1 |
| Region | West |
| Hospital(s) | Glasgow Royal Infirmary |
| Main Duties of Placement | Duties include ward round and ward care responsibilities involving surgical emergency patients, acutely unwell or post-op patients in HDU and patients under the care of elective surgery teams for one of the surgical subspecialties at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. |
| Typical Work Pattern | Full shift, early or late and Hospital at Night Team. |
| Learning Opportunities | Formal weekly hospital teaching session for FY1 doctors. Specialty meetings weekly as well as mortality meetings monthly and hospital meetings. Wide access to internet and therefore e-learning. Demanding post with many opportunities to learn during clinical care. |
| Teaching | Formal weekly FY1 teaching programme on Thursdays from 12:30 to 13:30 at Postgraduate Centre. Weekly ward-based Pharmacy teaching on Fridays at 12 noon. All teams are involved in research and audit and each team has a separate MDT weekly. There is a surgical mortality meeting monthly and hospital meeting weekly. |
| Unique Selling Points | Busy city-centre teaching hospital serving north and east Glasgow. All trainees are closely supervised. Most consultant teams do at least one ward round daily and often two. Emergency receiving is consultant-led, with senior trainees living in at night and actively involved in patient care. Tertiary gastrointestinal surgery practice by 16 consultant GI surgeons covering oesophago-gastric, HPB and colorectal surgery. At present all the FY1s undertake a 2-3 week rotation to Urology. |
| It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change. | |
